Graphic Organizers/Pre-Writing Ideas
and Essay Writing Resources for teachers

Brainstorm worksheet: cluster diagram (PDF)

Outline worksheet for an academic paragraph (PDF)

Holt Rinehart and Winston samples: Graphic Organizers
(one of the most  useful resources  on the Net for encouraging critical thinking foracademic essays)

More Graphical Organizers for Essays

Introductory/elementary writing activities

Describing How to Get to a City Location
worksheet (PDF)

Writing simple sentences worksheet (PDF)

Describing a person worksheet (PDF)

Job interview & writing worksheet (PDF)

Describing a Room: vocabulary & worksheets
worksheet (PDF)

"A Day at the Ocean" writing activity (PDF)

Introductions, attention getters/grabbers / leads /hooks for  elementary essay writing students

Using pictures to teach attention getters (PDF)

Writing attention getters for persuasive essays
(PDF)

Writing catchy introductions worksheet  (PDF)

Attention getters guide (PDF)

Introductory Paragraph: Hook Strategies worksheet
(PDF)

Writing Your Introduction: 4 styles with examples

9 ways of  "getting the reader’s attention"

Exercises for topic  & support sentences

Writing support sentences for an opinion paragraph
about television with pictures (PDF)

Writing topic sentences and  detail sentences
lesson (PDF)

Paragraph writing terminology quiz (PDF)

Find the topic sentence worksheet (PDF)

Writing exciting topic sentences (PDF)

Write a topic sentence for each of these paragraphs.
(PDF)

Match topic sentences to the paragraphs (PDF)

Write and find topic sentences (PDF)

Writing exciting paragraphs (PDF)

Fill in each blank with the topic sentence (word)

Write support sentences (PDF)

Put a ring around the letter that corresponds to what you think is the topic sentence(PDF)

Write topic sentences for paragraphs-business
related (PDF)

For each limited topic below, select the two items that could serve as topic sentences

Rewrite the following paragraphs by joining simple sentences into complex and compound ones

One sentence in each of the following pairs is the topic sentence. (PDF)